The tomatoes are growing great guns around these parts.  Nothing turning red just yet, but another week or two and we’ll be seeing the first blushes.  I’m a little excited to tell you about my solution to the inefficient tomato cage dilemma.

The problem with conventional tomato cages are they are just too damn short. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an indeterminate tomato just two feet high.  Hell, even the roma’s will get three feet tall at least, and they really only need a stake to help hold them upright.

So my solution to the problem was this.  Rather than put a cage around the tomato plant when it’s young, I would build the cage around the plant as it grew.

I stuck 8 foot rebars into the boxes at each corner as my uprights.  Then each week, as the tomatoes grew I added cross bars of bamboo.  they…